[Coco] nitros-9

[Darren A.]

Thanks for the feedback Bob. Can you provide any details about the images 
that you couldn't write to disk?  If you are referring to images in DMK 
format then that is a known limitation. It only supports the simple JV 
format at the moment.

Some things I would still like to add (when I can find some spare time) are:

* 48 TPI disks in 96 TPI drives (assuming this can be done reliably)
* Support for DMK disk images
* Reading/Writing some forms of copy protected disks (requires DMK images).

Other comments/suggestions are welcome.

Cheers,
Darren

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>From: theother_bob
>Subject: Re: [Coco] nitros-9
>
>I just tried it today on my XP laptop Darren... very cool!
>I was able to read and write coco floppies to/from dsk images.
>Some dsk images would not output to disk, but I expected that
>since there are various formats. Work-around-able, I'm sure.
>
>Anyone looking for an easy XP floppy solution, I would
>recommend this as a good alternative to omniflop.
>
>Nice work Darren! Are you continuing development?
>Thanks,
>Bob
>
>===========================
>
>You could also try my CoCoDisk utility located here:
>
>   <http://www.coco3.com/users/DarrenA/CoCoDisk.zip>
>
>It doesn't require registration like OmniFlop.  You will need to download
>and install the fdrawcmd driver from <http://simonowen.com/fdrawcmd/>, but
>it too requires no registration and is much easier to install (no going
>through the Device Manager).
>
>So far, I've gotten no reports of anyone having actually used this utility.
>
>The main restriction with the current version is that it doesn't support
>double-stepping the head on a 96 TPI drive when a 48 TPI disk is inserted.
>I hope to remedy this problem soon.
>
>Cheers,
>Darren

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